The British Prose Writers...: Cowley's essays. Shenstone's essaysJ. Sharpe, 1821 |
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... king James was wont to call the happiest of our nation , the men placed in the country by their fortune above a high constable , and yet beneath the trou- ble of a justice of peace ; in a moderate plenty , without any just argument for ...
... king James was wont to call the happiest of our nation , the men placed in the country by their fortune above a high constable , and yet beneath the trou- ble of a justice of peace ; in a moderate plenty , without any just argument for ...
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... king ' s a slave compared with thee . MARTIAL , LIB . II . EP . LXVIII . " Quod te nomine ? " & c . THAT I do you , with humble bows no more , And danger of my naked head , adore : That I , who lord and master , cried erewhile , Salute ...
... king ' s a slave compared with thee . MARTIAL , LIB . II . EP . LXVIII . " Quod te nomine ? " & c . THAT I do you , with humble bows no more , And danger of my naked head , adore : That I , who lord and master , cried erewhile , Salute ...
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... kings , or to the favourites of kings . † The horned deer , by nature arm'd so well , Did with the horse in common pasture dwell ; And when they fought , the field it always wan , Till the ambitious horse begg'd help of man , * [ For ...
... kings , or to the favourites of kings . † The horned deer , by nature arm'd so well , Did with the horse in common pasture dwell ; And when they fought , the field it always wan , Till the ambitious horse begg'd help of man , * [ For ...
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... king as he . " And true it was , through the whole earth around No king of such a name was to be found . " Is some old hero of that name alive , Who his high race does from the gods derive ? Is it some mighty general , that has done ...
... king as he . " And true it was , through the whole earth around No king of such a name was to be found . " Is some old hero of that name alive , Who his high race does from the gods derive ? Is it some mighty general , that has done ...
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... eye . ] A little ob scurely expressed . The meaning is The garden gratifies no sense , it courts and flatters none , so much as it does the eye . - Hurd . When the great Hebrew king did almost strain The wondrous 76 COWLEY'S ESSAYS .
... eye . ] A little ob scurely expressed . The meaning is The garden gratifies no sense , it courts and flatters none , so much as it does the eye . - Hurd . When the great Hebrew king did almost strain The wondrous 76 COWLEY'S ESSAYS .
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Page 121 - t depends Not on the number, but the choice of friends. Books should, not business, entertain the light, And sleep, as undisturbed as death, the night. My house a cottage, more Than palace, and should fitting be For all my use, no luxury. My garden painted o'er With Nature's hand, not Art's ; and pleasures yield, Horace might envy in his Sabine field.
Page 101 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Page 28 - Hail, old patrician trees, so great and good! Hail, ye plebeian under-wood ! Where the poetic birds rejoice, And for their quiet nests and plenteous food Pay, with their grateful voice. Hail, the poor Muses...
Page 116 - Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise : He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river's bank expecting stay Till the whole stream which stopp'd him should be gone, Which runs, and, as it runs, for ever will run on.
Page 121 - Even when I was a very young Boy at School, instead of running about on Holidays and playing with my fellows, I was wont to steal from them, and walk into the fields, either alone with a Book, or with some one Companion, if I could find any of the same temper.
Page 105 - I thought, when I went first to dwell in the country, that without doubt I should have met there with the simplicity of the old poetical golden age ; I thought to have found no inhabitants there, but such as the shepherds of Sir Philip Sidney in Arcadia, or of Monsieur d'Urfe...
Page 126 - Nothing shall separate me from a mistress which I have loved so long, and have now at last married, though she neither has brought me a rich portion, nor lived yet so quietly with me as I hoped from her.
Page 66 - Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.
Page 29 - Here let me careless and unthoughtful lying, Hear the soft winds above me flying With all their wanton boughs dispute, And the more tuneful birds to both replying, Nor be myself too mute.